W 121 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does W 121 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 121 Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (82) and transit (89). Cleanliness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 121 Street, with 67 reports, and cleanliness ranks 18 among numbered streets. Across every category, 598 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 67 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 58. The file runs across 64 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 121 Street carries roughly 45 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 121 Street carries 62 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 121 Street, 82 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 63 more, and paint and lead for 33. The housing file lists 145 residential buildings on West 121 Street holding 1,320 homes, with 93 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 9.1 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 25 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 72 among numbered streets and housing ranks 34. West 121 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 65 and quietness at 46 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 82 and tree cover 82, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where West 121 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 82.
The housing file puts 22% of the 1,320 homes on West 121 Street in rent stabilization, 232 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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W 121 Street runs through Harlem and Morningside Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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